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o Copyright:
VideoTitler is SHAREWARE.
THIS UNLIMITED VERSION MAY NOT BE DISTRIBUTED IN ANY RESPECT. IF IT SHOULD
APPEAR ON ANY PD-SERIES OR IN A MAILBOX I'LL TAKE JURIDICAL STEPS.
I DONT'T TAKE ANY WARRANTY FOR ANY LOSS OF DATA RESULTING FROM USING THIS
PROGRAMM. I CANNOT GUARANTEE THAT THIS PROGRAMM IS ENTIRELY BUG-FREE.
ANY USAGE IS AT YOUR OWN RISK !!! NO EXCHANGE !!!
o What is VideoTitler V1.15 ?
VideoTitler V1.15 ( from now on referred as Vtt ) is a simple program to
generate professional looking TV end titles and credits.
Vtt allows you to scroll ANY font you like ( even colorfonts are suppor-
ted !) from the bottom to the top of a 736*560 pixels sized screen.
You may choose between four speeds.
Unfortunately scrolling of brushes is not supported yet.
o How are the titles defined ?
In the ScriptEditor you enter your text to be scrolled line per line.
Besides you may define the centering for each line ( left, middle, right ).
In the StyleEditor you define your font, font attributes ( outline, shadow,
normal ) and the color palette.
Having defined such a 'style' you may assign it to any number of textlines
you like.
o Which system configuration is required ?
Vtt runs on ANY Amiga, equipped at least with Kickstart 1.2. If you won't
use colorfonts even 512k of memory will do.
The more chip-ram you have the more fonts you may use within a script.
( With 1 MB you shouldn't have any problems ! )
After this quick survey, here is the complete reference:
o any numbers that have to be typed in are taken as pixels. The display has
got a width of 736 and a height of 560 pixels ( approximately 450 on NTSC-
Amigas); as the overscan-mode is used, the 20 leftmost and rightmost and
5 pixels on the top and at the bottom are invisible, so if a textline
should just fit onto the screen this won't necessarily mean that it will
be entirely visible on the TV-screen.
I. Loading, saving and executing scripts
With the menu item 'Load...' you may load one of the provided scripts,
( located in the drawer 'scripts' ) and with 'Save...' you may save your
scripts.
Already when loading your script, Vtt tries to load the fonts used within
it, so this will take some time ( especially with floppy drives ).
If Vtt should fail to load a font, a requester will inform you about this.
Klicking on the 'Play' gadget pops up a requester that allows you to
specify the scrolling speed ( 50, 100, 200 and 300 pixels per second.
After that your screen will show the background color defined in your
script. All you have to do is to press the left mouse button and your
text will be scrolled in. Pressing the right mouse button will cause the
script to hold. Another mouse click (right button ) will restart it. By
clicking the left button you'll return to the script editor.
'Play current' works similar to 'Play'; however scrolling starts at the
current textline and your script will be scrolled in an endless loop.
If your Amiga shouldn't be fast enough to generate a line of text , Vtt
automatically inserts some free lines ( happens mainly when you scroll
at a speed of more than 100 pixels/sec, with outlined fonts or with
colorfonts )
If there's not enough memory Vtt will inform you about this. In this case
you only can try to make it with less fonts, as especially colorfonts eat
very much memory.
II. Editing scripts
On the left of Vtt's window you've got a box where you may select each line
of your title.
When starting Vtt there aren't any lines yet. You may change this by
klicking on 'Add Text'.
On the right, there will appear additional gadgets:
curr. line: here you may edit your line of text at pleasure
o x-position: Centering is | LEFT | RIGHT | MIDDLE
distance of | left border | right border | ignored
o y-Distance: specifies the number of blank lines to be scrolled, before
the next text line appears
o cur. Style: defines the 'Style' of this line; may be changed by selecting
'Edit Style'.
Beyond the stringgadget there is some information about the dimensions of
the textline; if it is printed blue, there either is no font loaded
or this line won't fit onto the screen.
[Values for YPos etc. don't have any meaning in his version.]
Beyond the select box there is another number of gadgets, that allow you
to modify the sequence of the textlines:
o Copy after activating 'Copy' Vtt waits for another line to be chosen.
The current line will be copied BEHIND this line, but still will
be preserved at its former position. The copy will become the
new current line.
o Move behind
works the same as 'Copy', but the original line will be deleted
o Move front
works the same as 'Move behind', but the copy will be inserted
IN FRONT of its destination.
Selecting any of these gadgets a second time after activating it will
abort the action.
o Delete deletes the current textline; the next line becomes current line
o Add Text
inserts a new line of text AFTER the current line
Some words about the menus:
o Bubble (de)activates wavy scrolling mode
o Copperbars Vtt won't show the background-color defined. Therefore it
shows a black screen with two copperbars scrolling up and
down. Very remarkable !
o Coppercycle produces a rainbow-like color slide in the background. How-
ever it does only look good in combination with huge fonts !
o Add Text does the same as 'Add Text' Gadget
o Select next selects the following line
o Select back selects the previous line
III. The Style-Editor
To enter the style-editor simply click on 'Edit-Style'. In the select-box
the styles already defined will appear ( when no script is loaded, there
won't be any styles ! )
Clicking on 'Add Style' defines a new style. On the right there will appear
a couple of gadgets:
o Stylename here you may enter a name for your style ( it's unsignificant
for Vtt; it's just for better survey; its first character will
be displayed in the script-editor right after the textline )
o Style the font's style is defined by this gadget:
- 'Normal': neither outline nor shadow
the following three gadgets are meaningless in this case
- 'Shadow': the textline appears with a shadow (bottom-right)
'X-OFFSET' defines displacement to the right in pixels